joel fishbane

shakespeare unbard

a 38 episode podcast in which joel fishbane explores each of Shakespeare's plays, offering tidbits, trivia, and revisionist interpretations of all those plays they made you read in school. 

Shakespeare Unbard, Episode 22: All is not rotten in the state of Denmark - until Hamlet comes along and messes it all up

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Hamlet is an extraordinary play but we would being doing Shakespeare a service if we stopped talking about it all the time. In Episode 22 of Shakespeare Unbard, Joel does Shakespeare a disservice and talks about the Bard's most famous work. In this episode you'll hear excerpts and clips from:

 

  • Brill, Clive. Hamlet. Arkangel, 2008.

  • Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Cinecom Pictures, 1990.

  • Shakespeare, William.  Hamlet (The Riverside Shakespeare). Houghton and Mifflin, 1974.

Films discussed:

  • Almereyda, Michael. Hamlet. Buena Vista Pictures, 2000.
  • Bennett, Rodney. Hamlet. BBC, 1980.
  • Branagh, Kenneth. Hamlet. Columbia Pictures, 1996.
  • Olivier, Laurence. Hamlet. Universal-International, 1948.
  • Zeffirelli, Franco. Hamlet. Warner Brothers, 1990.

Still craving more Hamlet? Listen to this amazing episode of "This American Life" in which a group of convicts explore the play.

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